Taking control of my online identity

I just googled myself for the first time in a long time. The following results came up:

* A profile on Amazon.com for a guy who posts extremely long reviews of Dungeons & Dragons books from Madison, WI* My resume, circa the year 2000, at a long-neglected Argonne National Lab page* My LinkedIn page--no, wait, it's Jeff Hershberger of Madison, WI. Aaaaargh* A Facebook page for some other Jeff Hershberger (I'm not on Facebook)* Some other junk* My profile on the Cleveland Weblogger Meetup Group* A profile for a photographer on photo.net, whose home page is listed as shagfinger.com (which, thank god, is inactive)* A Classmates.com profile for Jeff Hershberger of Stevens Point, WI

Back in the late '90s and early 2000s, I always came up first in google searches. Having your name in a .gov page can have that effect. Not any more. It's an unusual name, but I didn't even have it to myself in the scientific literature. There was a rather prolific biologist that always came up when people searched for my articles.

This is harder than it sounded. Think I'll email that guy in Madison.

UPDATE: I just claimed a custom LinkedIn public profile page. So, guy in Madison, if you follow the old link in my email dotsig, it's broken.